CB2500 Compute Blade 520X B2 with 4-Blade SMP Connector

CB2500 Compute Blade 520X B2 with 4-Blade SMP Connector
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

06 Jan 2016
143997

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 delivers enterprise computing power and performance, as well as unprecedented scalability and configuration flexibility, with the latest Intel Xeon E7-8890 v3 processor, to help you lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and enables multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more details, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-17 (09/11/2015)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	2 Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

VMware recommends to install deployPkg with open-vm-tools if creating a Template http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2075048. VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by the operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory on a SLES 12 SP2 guest.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP2 virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP2 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance. VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

4 Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Sep-2015	Driver Size: 8413846
	Checksum: d411614eed2c4c31df827b82e0c2f7c6
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-h1

2 Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 11620897
	Checksum: 4a68c22bea8194ffd51d459ad4c4c963
	Driver Version: 4.12.18.3146

The term SUSE YES Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Oracle America Inc.
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores , CA 94065

579952

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